Posted on 12/03/2015 1:28:38 PM PST by Twotone
Keith Eric Wood is being prosecuted for standing outside a Michigan courthouse and handing out a leaflet that discusses jury nullification.
According to Michigan authorities, his leafletting (1) constitutes felony “obstruction of justice," by "knowingly and intentionally giving the members of a ... jury pool a pamphlet that encouraged the jurors to violate their oaths and directly contradicted the instructions the jurors would be given thereby tainting the entire jury panel..."
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It is your 1st Amendment right to do so. He should sue the county for attempting to deny him his constitutional rights.
That is a good way to seriously hack off judges. (snicker)
Lawyers, Prosecutors and Judges (basically a buddy system of mutually supporting lawyers) fear that their rice bowls will disappear. Keeping the legal system expensive and impenetrable by anyone but a lawyer is the goal.
The Texas constitution says that nobody that is “morally or ethically impaired” may serve on a jury. When called for jury duty in Denton county years ago the judge stated that and then said he would excuse anyone from jury duty who was willing to stand up and say why they were morally or ethically impaired. One man stood up and said he was morally impaired because he was in favor of jury nullification. The judge excused him.
Unfortunately I moved to New Jersey before I could try that trick
Free speech ratchets down one more notch.
Yep. This looks like one of those cases that could tie the Federal Courts in knots for the next eight or nine years.
I like serving on juries. The last one was a speed trial or some such name. We were told the trial would last one full day and would fulfill our jury duty obligation in one swoop.
Plus, we got to go to a restaurant for lunch. Nice.
“That is a good way to seriously hack off judges. (snicker)”
The mere mention of jury nullification will get you out of jury duty.
Not that I’ve tried, I consider it a serious responsibility.
now it’s a felony to practice what the constitution gives every American citizen the right to do if they choose to provide a sitting jury constitutional guidelines of their legal rights and responsibilities as a juror? Since when does some judge in a court room have the authority of their instructions to a jury supersede constitutional law? Talk about narcissism! Someone should have challenged that law long ago.
“I like serving on juries. The last one was a speed trial or some such name. We were told the trial would last one full day and would fulfill our jury duty obligation in one swoop.
Plus, we got to go to a restaurant for lunch. Nice.”
Here you get $25 per day and a voucher for free parking in the deck adjacent to the courthouse. For me, civic duty is the primary motivation, not the financial remuneration.
Because I have a Pre-law degree I am never going to be chosen to serve on a jury. The lawyers with strike me.
Therefore, the earlier I can leave the better
May all of the people advocating jury nullification be judged by a jury believing in nullification. They are oath violators just the type of people you want to decide your case.
I doubt it will go far. The rulings on this type of speech are clear.
Everyone should know about Jury Nullification. I had a friend that when being asked a question by the prosecutor during the selection of a jury brought up jury nullification. The judge interrupted and told him to just leave.
The last time I had jury duty the judge spent a good while trying to intimidate us with an anti nullification tirade just before deliberations. My thoughts were KMA, yer honor - you don’t control what goes on in that room. Yet.
That O.J. jury sure seemed to understand it just fine.
May all of the people advocating jury nullification be judged by a jury believing in nullification.
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Gee, the jury will be exposed to Jury Nullification just by serving on that case!!!!
This is a case of Conflict of Constitution.
No, it’s definitely not a financial thing. Maybe I just enjoy getting out and about.
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